Movie
Prince of Darkness
Overview
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-10-23
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Alive Films, Larry Franco Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Donald Pleasence as Priest
- Lisa Blount as Catherine Danforth
- Victor Wong as Prof. Howard Birack
- Jameson Parker as Brian Marsh
- Dennis Dun as Walter
- Susan Blanchard as Kelly
- Anne Marie Howard as Susan Cabot
- Ann Yen as Lisa
- Ken Wright as Lomax
- Dirk Blocker as Mullins
- Jessie Lawrence Ferguson as Calder
- Peter Jason as Dr. Paul Leahy
Crew
- John Carpenter - Director
- John Carpenter - Screenplay
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